Relations still very tense
NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today she isn't counting on a breakthrough in relations with North Korea n...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for second term as president Monday in a ceremony that sought to portray unity among the count...
TOKYO — A U.S. sailor was sentenced Thursday to life in prison in the stabbing death of a Japanese taxi driver, a crime that led to calls for tougher punishment for Amer...
SYDNEY — Nine years after vanishing from outside her Australian family's home, Muffy the dog was found alive and well this month in another backyard — 1,200 miles away —...
But tensions with Iraqi Kurds in north continue
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRPLANE — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today he sees "some chance of a modest accelera...
ROME — The number of prisoners put to death worldwide decreased in 2008, a human rights group said today, adding that China retained its position as the world's top exec...
LONDON — International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as ars...
BAGHDAD — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad for meetings today with Iraq's political leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as well as G...
LONDON — The British government told civil servants to go forth and tweet.
The government published guidelines today for its departments on using the microblogging servi...
BEIJING — For the first time, a giant panda cub has been born in China after being conceived using frozen sperm, officials announced Friday — an innovation scientists ho...
